Whole-school Japanese resources: grammar

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An introduction to the Japanese language and culture that I made for my secondary school Japanese club. It covers introductory phrases, an outline of the three alphabets of Japanese (hiragana, katakana and kanji), simple questions and answers, numbers and a bit of calligraphy using hiragana.
Contains a 58 slide PowerPoint and Hiragana/Katakana handouts.

Learn Japanese With Jokes - sample is a sample of the full book, Learn Japanese With Jokes. In the sample there are ten jokes in Japanese together with vocabulary support and English translations. There are lots of different ways you can use them in class:
As revision to illustrate a grammar point.
Matching exercise - can they match the Japanese jokes with the English translations?
Reading practice - short reading in Japanese and they are rewarded with a laugh if they understand it.
Shouting dictations.
Jigsaw text (cut up a joke line by line, can your pupils put it back together?)
As a reward for good work/behaviour.
The book has proved very popular with lots of teachers (and pupils). Why not give it a try?

A cross curriculum resource for Japanese and Social Studies/ Humanities. This assignment includes library (research skills) and discussion with your librarian is recommended and a library lesson (or several) booked.
There are several elective topics within the Festivals and Cultural activities to choose from and students can also pick their own useful phrases to include.
Teacher notes and an Assessment/marking sheet are included.

Marking sheet for Middle School Japanese Language learners.
Makes marking a role play between students easier as it includes space to tick what the students included when introducing themselves to each other.

Are you learning Japanese? Are you looking for a fun way to learn Japanese? I have developed a way to learn different languages based on my experience as an ESL teacher. This pack has 57 different settings for students to talk about in Japanese. The worksheets themselves are in English and the students do need to translate the places and objects they see into Japanese. At the end of the session, the students can play a fun game of word bingo to show they have mastered that day's vocabulary. Try it, it is a lot of fun for everyone!
Japanese Bingo pack: This is a simple starter game for students. There are 114 different pictures to choose from. Select a single picture and project the image on the wall or share it with the class as a handout.
Let's Talk in Japanese!: This set of cards looks at 57 different settings. The teacher describes something in the top card. The students then use this to model a sentence using the bottom set of pictures. There are lots of things to see and describe in every picture. When the students have completed this task, they can repeat it by working in pairs to discuss each picture.
Let's Write in Japanese pack: There are lots of ways of using this teaching pack. It could be used as writing assessment for students learning Japanese.
* Please note - these resources provide visual prompts, not specific language instruction.